DAC Collection Artist Information

Joseph Mallord William Turner
British (English) (1775 - 1851)

English painter and draftsman

Brief biography, in most instances from the Union List of Artist Names® Online:
Turner dominated British landscape painting throughout the first half of the 19th century. He established a reputation in the Royal Academy, London, as a topographical watercolorist and painter of Sublime and historical landscapes. Turner's body of work includes around three hundred paintings and over twenty thousand drawings and watercolors, the majority of which were given to the English government upon his death.

Artist ID number in the Union List of Artist Names®:ULAN 500026846.The ULAN link above leads to a cataloging authority record at the Getty Research Institute.

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